J. Bauer - Biography

James "Gerbs" Bauer
is a graduate student at the University of Hawaii's Institute for
Astronomy in Manoa. Gerbs arrived at the IfA in 1996 after receiving a M.S.
degree from SUNY Stonybrook. Gerbs received his BS from MIT in 1991.
He recieved a second Masters at the UH in 1999 and is currently working on
his PhD dissertation Dynamical, Physical, and Evolutionary Relationships
of Outer Solar System Bodies with Dr. K. J. Meech. His goal is to
search for activity in small bodies in the outer solar system which are
migrating in from the Kuiper Belt, to better understand the history of the
early solar system. His thesis work involves a large amount of observing
using the telescopes on Mauna Kea and in Chile. He is a part of the planetary
group at the Institute for Astronomy.